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Artists Call for Guggenheim Boycott over Migrant Worker Exploitation in Abu Dhabi

Hans Haacke made me aware of the following situation which I’m passing along to Artblog readers: More than 130 international artists, curators, writers and others have signed a boycott to end all cooperation with the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and are demanding that the Guggenheim Foundation and its Abu Dhabi partner take immediate and meaningful steps to safeguard the rights of the workers constructing the new branch museum on Saadiyat Island, where Human Rights Watch have documented a series of abuses.

Report from Madrid: Picasso Land at ARCO

Post by Mari Shaw Thomas Hirschhorn, Concept Car, at Art Fair ARCO in Madrid I overcame my art fair fatigue and visited Madrid’s Art Fair ARCO for the first time last weekend, lured in part by the exhibitions in Madrid’s great museums. How could I resist seeing the Picasso exhibition with the Spanish light in my eyes at the Reina Sofia, home of Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece Guernica? Nor did I want to pass up Velasquez at the Prado or the two part Modigliani show at the Thyssen-Bornemisz Museum and the Caixa Foundation. I was not disappointed. ARCO is a kinder, ... More » »

Behind the scenes at Energy Yes!

DSCN1391.jpgOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Image is detail of Thomas Hirschhorn’s Camo-Outgrowth (Winter), a new acquisition at the PMA that is a stellar attraction of the Energy Yes! installation. The camouflage tape seems to cover tumors that have cropped up on the globes. The whole thing conveys a kind of aesthetic of illness and bandaging in an on-going story that is told new each day. Click image to see it bigger. Post by Libby and Roberta We ran up to the Philadelphia Museum of Art this morning to get a preview of the first of the new contemporary art installations, “Energy ... More » »